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I received my bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Oregon. Having strong interests in blending biology and psychology, I moved on to work in research in the Great Northwest, culminating in managing two neuroscience labs at the University

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Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?: 10 of 428
"[...] I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug."[...] I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with ca... More..
Education > School Bullying & Violence The line between harmless fun and bullying: 2 of 85
The right to swing your fist ends where another person's nose begins. The same thing applies to insults. The right to tease someone ends where another person's vulnerabilities begin. So the question is, how do you figure out where another person's vulnerabilities are?Often mockery can be misinterpreted as hurtful so, since we... More..
Computers & Technology > Web Design A beginner's guide to HTML: 1 of 28
A brief historyIn 1980 Tim Berners-Lee devised a way for people to share documents through his prototype called ENQUIRE. Nine years later, a colleage and Berners-Lee devised a simple markup language and the following year the World Wide Web project was proposed and accepted.These days HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the m... More..
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Benefits of playing video games: 4 of 102
Stereotypically, video-game players are considered a little bit geeky, maybe a little bit lazy, and not very productive because it's a common view that people who play video games end up wasting their time on it rather than spending their time doing something more worthwhile (which, some might say, is anything else).We've cer... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Easter How to plan an Easter egg hunt: 1 of 23
We all love to hunt down the ever-elusive Easter Egg. Kids and adults alike can join in this celebration of Easter that spans not only generations but also faiths and religions. Sometimes, though, the hunt can go astray. Perhaps it's April showers that promise May flowers that interfere with Easter Egg hunting plans or maybe ... More..
Hobbies & Games > Hobbies & Games (Other) Is gaming addiction a problem?: 3 of 61
By virtue of the fact that addictions are problems, within that set of addictions, an addiction to gaming is also a problem. Now, just how big of a problem it is remains to be determined. And if it is a problem, and a big one at that, how do you know when it crosses that line into "the problemhood of an addiction" and even be... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Out West: 4 of 78
Out west we haveA history all our ownWe took this land(Some say stole)And made it our home.It started with "Manifest Destiny"Chasing a promise of gold and a hopeSome headed south to the Frisco BayAnd felt a sense of what's to come.Lewis and Clark and The Donner partyQuestioned unbreakable family bonds.Illnesses and ordeals,Br... More..
Health & Fitness > Pediatrics Do childhood vaccinations help or hurt the development of a healthy immune system?: 2 of 37
Vaccinations help the immune system. There's very little quesiton about that. They don't hinder the immune system or slow development. They're designed to provide antigens to which the immune system can provide a more robust response, so if anything, a vaccine will provide an immune response where there wouldn't have been one... More..
Health & Fitness > Mental Health (Other) Forgetting dreams in the morning: What you can do to remember: 1 of 16
No one is quite sure why we dream, though there are many spectulations. One theory says we dream because our brains process information and still digest information while we sleep. This theory might be true since some people claim to have noticed things in dreams they didn't notice while awake and periodically these events tu... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Expressions of love: 13 of 205
Love is another's happinessBeing intrinsically intertwinedWith your ownI know it's trueBecause youSmile and it warms my heartEven if it's a pictureAnd weHappen to beFar apartLaugh and I get giddyA little crazyA little sillyCry and IFeel happiness dieDue to life's hardshipsThrough your eyesGet mad whenYou see me doSomething da... More..